The alcohol-free, fermented rice-drink purports to provide essential amino-acids, oligosaccharides, vitamins, minerals, and other bio-chemicals that bring repair, nutrition and health to the body (guess that's the acne scar sorted - Optimistic Editor). It might be incredibly sweet for the uninitiated, but when mixed with other ingredients proves to be quite interesting a taste proposition. (The pure amazake with ginger evokes a violent yearning for Ah Balling, whilst elsewhere the cold pressed orange with amazake drink plays it Orange Julius-esque.)